In the epic fantasy Zodiac: The Talismans Rising by Kyrie Dunphy, X takes an artifact called the Yin Scroll from a hidden chamber beneath a jungle cenote, and in doing so triggers a massive chain reaction. This disrupts the system governing a realm called Sheng...

In Polly Isn't Home by A.J.R. Traill, Polly West arrives in a desert research settlement with no record of her existence and learns she has been displaced into a community nineteen years in the past, before her own birth. It is built around a facility...

Son of Osivirius by Cathryn deVries tells the fascinating story of a new world torn between two human factions living on the recently colonized planet, Osivirius: The Colony, ruled by Commander Tun, and the rebels, a smaller group of agrarian-minded people who have hidden themselves...

In Gripped (Part 6: The Dunkin Legacy) by Stacy A. Padula, Taylor Dunkin’s life is in turmoil, and it’s hard to see a clear way out. He used to be a college football star with everything going for him, but a knee injury ended it...

In Dear Dairy by Steve Goldsmith, the story follows Justin Case, a twelve-year-old boy who writes about his life in a diary while dealing with school, family struggles, and the challenges of being dyslexic and mildly autistic. His entries, full of misspellings and made-up words,...

It is 1962, two years since eleven-year-old Piper Lewis lost her mother. The phone call that changes her life comes through at her home in Arlington, Virginia. Her father, Neil Lewis, a career officer with USAID, had been posted to Bangkok, and he was moving...

Murasaki: Seasons of the Sword Book 4 by David Kudler is about Kano Murasaki, also called Risuko, a girl growing up during Japan’s civil war. After her father is disgraced and sent away, her mother ends up selling her to a hidden school where girls...

Katy Farber's What If It Wasn’t My Fault follows Indie Watson, a teenager trying to navigate life after being sexually assaulted at a party. She wrestles with memories and a relentless sense of guilt. On top of that, she is burdened by her family's problems,...

In Jennifer Conklin's Misdirect, Shane Whitmore expects his final year of high school to revolve around soccer training until a violent mistake places him in the path of a man searching for a missing girl named Wren. The attacker believes Shane knows where she is...

On her first day at South Iris High, twelve-year-old Nina Allbright was an awkward auburn-haired girl with braces and two left feet. However, she has her two left feet to thank for an encounter that was about to shape the rest of her high school...